Not a big RTS guy myself but I want to play with a buddy so I'd like your feedback on which are the best RTS games we can do co-op online together. If we did versus he'd probably murder me every time or get bored taking it easy on me. Also swords and spells as opposed to WWII or sci-fi would be great. And they do not have to be really new games. I think his fave RTS is Shogun: Total War. Thanks mates!

I agree. I used to do this all the time with my friends and it was a blast. It will literally take hours to finish a game, and you better have a good strategy when gold runs out. I suggest you use hussars. AOE2 is really old now though.

If you don't mind older games, 2v6 in starcraft is also very fun and doable. I couldn't do it in warcraft 3 though. The AI is just too brutal in that game and it's too hard to turtle

Cool AOE2 sounds like a good candidate. I am liking the look of DAW2 as well, not sure if he'd go for it though? AOE2 is right up his alley. He loves medieval rts games. Old games don't matter, as I said his favourite game is Shogun TW from 8-9 years ago.